1.2 EXPLANATION OF CALENDAR[1]

Moon’s Phases:- ˜ New Moon; ‚First Quarter; Full Moon; ƒ Last Quarter.

TIMES.- The time given is Greenwich mean time.

The New Year finds me at Bingfield in fairly good health, except for sciatica, which has prevented me getting about much for some time. My farming pays fairly well, but the country is in a dangerous state politically. Pat & Ralph are abroad with the army, Teddie in the 20^th. Deccan Horse at Neemuch, Basil at St. Paul’s. Vera with Bessie, & Laila at home having lessons from the Crossdoney schoolmaster.

Bingfield 1 WEDNESDAY [1 -364] Circumcision. Bank Holiday, Scotland. Holiday, Stock Exchange

Wet a good part of the day. Eades ploughing. Basil & I cleaned brass. Wrote to White King to congratulate him on his Knight hood.

Bingfield 2 THURSDAY [2 -363] ˜8h 24m A M. (Greenwich)

Ploughing & yard cleaning. Basil went to Badminton in Cavan.

Bingfield 3 FRIDAY [3-362]

Ploughing & firewood collecting. May, Basil, & Laila went to a party at the Protestant Hall in Cavan.

Bingfield 4 SATURDAY [4-361]

Ploughing & timber collecting. Ferreted with Brady

Basil to Cavan for Badminton.

Brady shot & dug out 6 Rabbits & I 1 total 7

Bingfield 5 SUNDAY – 2 after Christmas [5-360]

Basil to church alone. Cold day. Rather stiff after a fall yesterday

Bingfield 6 MONDAY [6-359] Epiphany. Twelfh Day. Dividends due at Bank

Cold day. Holiday for the men. Basil started for Cavan, but his bicycle broke down Odd jobs about the place.

Bingfield 7 TUESDAY [7-358]

Galligan ploughing, Eades carrying his own firewood, Brady clearing fallen timber, Kerr quarrying. Basil went to Cavan and the Atkinsons

Wrote to Teddie.

1^st Month JANUARY 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 8 WEDNESDAY [8-357] Cambridge Lent begins

Ploughing in Clerkins field etc. Ferreted with Basil

I shot 5 rabbits & Basil 2 Total 7.

Bingfield 9 THURSDAY [9-356] ‚ 10h 55m A.M. (Greenwich). Fire Insurances expire

Wet & stormy. Put in a new casting to the Kitchen range, worked at fire bars, and soldered lamps of the trap. Basil to Cavan for badminton

Bingfield 10 FRIDAY [10-365]

Finished two fire bars & worked at May’s electric bell. Simons came & we worked till 7.30 P. M at my farmers appeal, while the rest went to a party at the Vincent Kennedys.

Bingfield 11 SATURDAY [11-354] Hillary Law Sittings begin

Repaired May’s electric bell. My engine refused to start, owing to magneto trouble. I got it right after a long time – 4 .30 P. M.

Stones being put down on the back lane. Basil to Cavan for badminton.

Bingfield 12 SUNDAY—1 aft Epiphany [12-353]

Cold. No one to church.

Bingfield 13 MONDAY [13-352]

Saw Mary Fitzpatrick about her pension. Basil went to shoot with Mr. Atkinson & got 1 Snipe & 3 Coots. I shot round Monery, Leggiland, etc down to Marahil, crossed the river at The Crocan & home through Dromora bog – only fired at 4 snipe, & got 3 of them. Got wet through by heavy rain & cut short my walk.

Shot 3 snipe 1 Pigeon & a hawk.

Bingfield 14 TUESDAY [14-351] Oxford Lent Term begins

Brady sold 4 bullocks. Men carting artificial manure from Cavan. Basil left by morning train. Sharpened & set a saw.

Bingfield 15 WEDNESDAY [15-350]

Turnips being pulled – a bad crop. Wrote about trees for planting & for the price of flax seed. May & Laila to a Party given by Mrs. Blackley at the Protestant Hall.

Bingfield 16 THURSDAY [16-349] 8h 44m A.M. (Greenwich)

Turnip pulling. May & Laila went to the Kilmore Sale.

Ferritted until stopped by rain.

Shot 2 Rabbits & a rat.

Bingfield 17 FRIDAY [17-348]

Men clearing branches from the felled wood. Saw Burrowes about the new wages as fixed by law.

1^st Month JANUARY 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 18 SATURDAY [18-347]

Ferreted with Brady. Began the new rate of Wages for the men.

Shot 8 rabbits in 9 shots.

Shot 8 Rabbits, Brady 1 Caught 2 total 11.

Bingfield 19 SUNDAY – 2 after Epiphany [19-346]

Cold & wet. No one to church. Wrote to Arthur Heathcote.

Bingfield 20 MONDAY [20-345]

Wet. Some ploughing done & clearing in the wood. Mended the cart harness & a grating for a drain in the yard.

Laila began lessons again.

Bingfield 21 TUESDAY [21-344]

Ploughing & clearing the wood. Laila & May to Lisnamandra.

Mended a small table.

Bingfield 22 WEDNESDAY [22-343]

Artificial manure carted from Cavan. Wood being cleared.

Ferretted with Brady.

Shot 4 Rabbits Brady 1 Caught 2 Total 7.

Bingfield 23 THURSDAY [23-342]

Ploughing in the Unfortunate field till Eades broke the plough for about the 10^th time, & wood clearing. Worked at Sparking plugs.

Letters from Pat, Ralph, & Teddie.

Bingfield 24 FRIDAY [24-341] ƒ 4h 22m A. M. (Greenwich)

Ploughing & wood clearing. Worked at insurance. Wrote to Ralph & Teddie. Miss Sweet called

Bingfield 25 SATURDAY [25-340] Conversion of St. Paul

Ploughing & wood clearing. Two Smith girls to tea with Laila.

Worked at sparking plugs etc. Wrote to Basil.

Bingfield 26 SUNDAY – 3 after Epiphany [26-339]

Morn service. Snow aft.

Bingfield 27 MONDAY [27-338]

Snow. Spent most of the day putting the wing room straight & hunting for Ralph’s watch. Wrote to him.

Bingfield 28 TUESDAY [28-337]

Snow lying. The wood being cleared. Worked at the magneto of my engine & fixed a pair of scissors for Mrs. Wagg.

Bingfield 29 WEDNESDAY [29-336]

Snow lying. Wood clearing. Worked at my magneto, but failed to make it go properly.

1^st Month JANUARY 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 30 THURSDAY [30-335]

Brady took my magneto to Mullery in Cavan, & brought it back cleaned. Put it on & pumped. Galligan clearing the Wood, Eades carting sticks for himself. Mc.Donald clearing leaves etc in front of the house. Snow lying, but thaw. Wrote to my Mother.

Bingfield 31 TUESDAY [31 -334] ˜ 11h 7m P.M. (Greenwich)

Raw, cold, & unpleasant. Manure carting & odd jobs. Wagg sick. Ran the engine & found it go fairly well.

2^nd Month FEBRUARY 1919 28 Days

Bingfield 1 FEB SATURDAY [32-333] Partridge and Pheasant Shooting ends

Wagg & May sick. Brady & Galligan clearing hedges. Eades went to Cavan with an ash log off the road. Made a small rosewood box.

Bingfield 2 SUNDAY – 4 after Epiphany [33-332] Purification of V. Mary. Candlemas. Scottish Quarter Day

May better. Dr. Clark to see Wagg. No one to church

Bingfield 3 MONDAY [34-331]

Ploughing etc. Ferreted with Brady

Shot 5 Rabbits, Brady 3 & caught 1 Total 9.

Bingfield 4 TUESDAY [35-330]

Brady & Galligan at work at a well at the Stewards house.

Eades ploughing & bringing in potatoes. Wrote to Ralph & sent him a cutting from the Times on the selection of the Indian Civil. Burrowes called while May & Laila were at the dancing class. Mended the cable of my engine, & got it running. Strike of Railway clerical staff to begin at 6. P. M.

Bingfield 5 WEDNESDAY [36-329]

Sent back my Farmer’s appeal corrected to the inspector of taxes.

Heard from Nasir `Ali, translitteraled & sent his letter to Teddie.

Mrs. Brabazon called. Brady & Galligan cutting a hedge, & Eades ploughing.

Bingfield 6 THURSDAY [37-328]

Worked at sparking plugs & soldered the hall lamp. Telegram from White King asking me to go to him today. Replied that I would go tomorrow.

Roebuck Hall 7 FRIDAY [38-327] ‚ 6h 52m P.M. (Greenwich)

Took the 1.30 P. M. Train & came here. Having a 2 hrs & 20 min. wait at Mullingar. I went to the barracks & called on the troops – Royal Scots –Col. Mc. Meakin.

Roebuck Hall 8 SATURDAY [39-326] Half Quarter Day

Rather seedy. Walked to Dundrum to get some bismuth lozenges

Mrs. Burton & two children came to stay.

2^nd Month FEBRUARY 1919 28 Days

Roebuck Hall 9 SUNDAY – 5 after Epiphany [40-325]

Stayed at home all day to keep warm

Roebuck Hall 10 MONDAY [41-324]

Saw Murray at 11. a.m. & he arranged to put a tooth onto my plate tomorrow. Did some shopping etc & went to the Grafton Kinema

Roebuck Hall 11 TUESDAY [42-323]

Murray finished my teeth. Called on Dopping Hepenstall at the Kildare St. Club, but missed him. Lunch at J. Bs. Met Fraser outside & went on to Kingstown with him. Saw a German submarine, called on the Richardson’s (out) & so home.

Roebuck Hall 12 WEDNESDAY [43-322]

Wrote to May. Tram to Dalkey & called on the Roothams. R. Laid up on crutches as the result of an accident.

Roebuck Hall 13 THURSDAY [44-321]

Tea with the Richardsons at Clarinda Park Kingstown.

Letter from Ralph

Roebuck Hall 14 FRIDAY [45-320] 11h 38m P.M. (Greenwich)

Wrote to May & Ralph.

Roebuck Hall 15 SATURDAY [46-319]

Went to Dalkey & called on Mrs. Locke, who gave me an account of her husband’s death on board the Leinster.

Roebuck Hall 16 Septuagesima SUNDAY [47-318]

Morn. service. Wrote to & heard from May about her going to Cheltenham.

Roebuck Hall 17 MONDAY [48-317]

Went to Dublin & got some copper rivets, information for May about trains to Cheltenham & enquired about enamelled baths.

Roebuck Hall 18 TUESDAY [49-316]

Stayed quietly about the place.

Roebuck Hall 19 WEDNESDAY [50-315]

Went to Dalkey with Mrs. Burton to see her father in law at Queenstown Lodge, called on Capt. O’ Rorke R. N. Major Lane of the Tank Corps dined.

Roebuck Hall 20 THURSDAY [51-314]

Stayed about the place, & did some packing.

Bingfield 21 FRIDAY [52-313]

Took the 1.30 P. M. train, after shopping at the stores, & came home in heavy rain.

2^nd Month FEBRUARY 1919 28 Days

Bingfield 22 SATURDAY [53-312]

Ploughing in Farnadaly & tree planting. Went to see Brady who has “Flu”.

Wrote to Pat’s adjutant about leave. Sent Askins, the timber man, a bill for £ 3 .2 .6 for timber for repairs to the hack stable – sent it through Simons.

Bingfield 23 Sexagesima SUNDAY [54-311] ƒ 1h 48m A. M. (Greenwich)

Stayed at home on account of the influenza which is about.

Wrote to Arthur Heathcote.

Bingfield 24 MONDAY [55-310] St. Matthias, Ap.

Grow into Cavan for money for May’s journey & some shopping

Brady sick. Galligan burning bushes. Eades drove me.

Bingfield 25 TUESDAY [56-309]

May & Laila lifted by the early train for Cheltenham. Eades carting manure

Galligan tree planting. Mc.Donald pruning.

Bingfield 26 WEDNESDAY [57-308]

Men carting turnips & Mc.Donald in the garden. Rather troubled with nausea & indigestion

Bingfield 27 THURSDAY [58-307]

Eades ploughing in Farnadaly. Galligan & Brady at trees. Mc.Donald in the garden. Odd jobs myself.

Bingfield 28 FRIDAY [59-306]

Brady & Galligan at timber. Eades ploughing. Scott & J. Weir repaired the partition in the hack stable & scraped paint off the bath in the bathroom

3^rd Month MARCH 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 1 MARCH SATURDAY [60-305] St. David

Wet nearly all day. Drilled out a bolt & fitted another to the plough, Brady helping, & spliced some reins for harness. Wrote to May.

Bingfield 2 Quinquagesima SUNDAY [61-304] ˜ 11h 11m A. M. (Greenwich)

Went round & had a chat with Moore. I find he wd. not let Mrs. Moore go to church on account of the influenza.

Bingfield 3 MONDAY [62-303]

Scott finished the bath, put up some brackets in the hack stable, helped Brady to make some swingle trees, & too measurements for a closet for the Lodge. Heard from & wrote to May.

Sent my arm chair to Cavan to be re-seated.

3^rd Month MARCH 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 4 Shrove TUESDAY [63-302]

Heard from May & Teddie & wrote to May. Brady to Cavan for cabbage plants. Galligan tree planting, Eades ploughing, mended a plough chain & worked at accounts.

Bingfield 5 Ash WEDNESDAY [64-301]

Petty Sessions. Note from Dr. Smith offering to take me to the assizes tomorrow.

Bingfield 6 THURSDAY [65-300]

Dr. Smith drove me to the assizes, Borrowes came back with us – only one case. Wet day.

Fish 1/3

Bingfield 7 FRIDAY [66-299]

Ploughing in Round Bank & potatoes carting & draining in Barrack Field. Began turning pegs for the stable.

Bingfield 8 SATURDAY [67-298]

Ploughing etc as before. Brady made a pig trough & put up the pegs I had made for the stable.

Bingfield 9 SUNDAY – 1 in Lent [68-297] ‚ 3h 14m A. M. (Greenwich). Ember Week

Quiet day at home. Saw Jim Clements at The Rocks. Scott in bed with influenza.

Bingfield 10 MONDAY [69 - 296]

Men de-seeding flax with the mangle. Rather seedy.

Bingfield 11 TUESDAY [70-295]

Brady took my bull to Cavan, but did not sell. Eades ploughing. Wire from Basil asking if May is in Cheltenham – replied.

Walked to Farnham & found the family foddering the cattle on account of the strike of their men.

Bingfield 12 WEDNESDAY [71-294] Ember Day

Heard from Teddie, & wrote to him & May. Saw the Station Master about Mays ticket to Triny. Ploughing in the Horse Park.

Oat meal 4/9 – Connolly in Sept.

Bingfield 13 THURSDAY [72-293]

Ploughing in the Horse Park. Brady went to his uncle’s funeral.

Soldered the stand pipe by the Green house which had burst, made soda water etc.

3^rd Month MARCH 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 14 FRIDAY [73-292] Ember Day

Soldered the stand pipe again, as it burst during the night from hard frost. Got the well in back lawn emptied to try & find the handle of the tap which Johnny had dropped into it. Did not find it, & made a new one. Piano tuned.

Bingfield 15 SATURDAY [74-291] Ember Day

Men picking potatoes. Heard from & wrote to May.

Brady tells me that my men have joined the transport workers union except Eades, who refused to do so.

Bingfield 16 SUNDAY – 2 in Lent [75-290] 3h 41m P. M. (Greenwich)

Unusually high barometer. Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 17 MONDAY [76-289] St. Patrick. Bank Holiday, Ireland

Holiday for the men. Borrowed a buck rabbit from Mrs. Smith.

Butter sold 2/1

(Mem) Capt Scots Potatoes Sold at £ 5.15.0 per ton

Bingfield 18 TUESDAY [77-288]

Heard from, & wrote to Teddie & May. Drizzling rain.

Men getting timber ready for the saw mill etc.

Long Jan & March -- Bread, flour, & oatmeal 8/3

Bingfield 19 WEDNESDAY [78-287]

Timber sent to the Killeshandra saw mill. Pat came by 4 .P. M train

Bingfield 20 THURSDAY [79-286]

Brady & Galligan wiring the new plantation. Eades at the forge.

Bingfield 21 FRIDAY [80-285]

Pat went to Cavan & Farnham. Men fencing the young wood.

Made some pegs for the stable.

Bingfield 22 SATURDAY [81-284]

Fencing & wiring the wood nearly finished. Revolver practice with Pat. Cleaned the library looking glass etc.

Butter sold 1/1

Bingfield 23 SUNDAY – 3 in Lent [82-283]

Pat & I to morn. service. He went aft. to Kilmore. Wrote to May & Ralph.

3^rd Month MARCH 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 24 MONDAY [83-282] ƒ 8h 34m P. M. (Greenwich)

Pat left for Dublin by the morning train. Put back the library grate by taking out some bricks. Had trouble with my pumping engine. Worked at it nearly all day, but failed to find the cause. Brady & I finished the pegs for the stable & he put them up.

Ploughing in Clerkin’s field, & fencing the new plantation.

Bingfield 25 TUESDAY [84-281] Annunciation. Lady Day. Quarter Day

Brady to Cavan on his own business & to cash a cheque for me. Sent on Letters & a wire to Pat to say there is illness at Torquay & that he shd. go to Wrington. Ploughing in Clerkins field, & fencing the new wood.

Bingfield 26 WEDNESDAY [85-280]

Brady began sowing oats. Mullery came & we made a tin cover for the magneto of the engine, & tried various experiments with plugs etc

I only got my lunch at six P. M. Sent to enquire for Dr. Smith who is ill with influenza.

Bingfield 27 THURSDAY [86-279]

Heavy gale with sleet at times. Men gravelling the upper part of the Back Lane. Went to see Scott who has just got over influenza.

1 lb butter sold 2/1

7 doz eggs sold @ 2/8 – 18/8

Bingfield 28 FRIDAY [87-278]

Very cold. Potatoes being brought in to the barn. Some slates are off the out buildings from yesterdays gale, & the tell tale of the tank twisted out of shape. Took it off.

Bingfield 29 SATURDAY [88-277]

Very cold with snow at intervals. Brady & Eades sowing & harrowing in the Round Bank. Wrote a long letter to Arthur Heathcote about Indian servants, as his wife has taken to writing & wants information.

Bingfield 30 SUNDAY – 4 in Lent [89-276]

Very cold, with Frost at night. Morn service at Kilmore.

Bingfield 31 MONDAY [90-275] ˜9h 5m (Greenwich). Cambridge Lent Term ends

Very cold, but bright sun. Worked at the engine to improve compression etc

Brady sowing oats in Round Bank. Mc. Donald went for lime to where the cart was broken on a former occasion.

4^th Month APRIL 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 1 APRIL TUESDAY [91-274]

Signed Ret Pay Voucher at Lismore & lunched there. Brady went to Cavan to sell potatoes

4^th Month APRIL 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 2 WEDNESDAY [92-273]

Potatoes being brought in & sowing of oats. Worked all day at the engine, and got it to go at last.

Bingfield 3 THURSDAY [93-272]

Measured the flax ground for sowing in Monery field. Repaired the stock of my Belgian gun. Worked at the engine which will not go.

2 lbs Butter sold 5/- 6 doz eggs sold @ 2/9 – 16/-

Cinnamond 12/6 Rorke 5/8 for March

Bingfield 4 FRIDAY [94-271]

Oats sowing in Monery & turf being brought in. Ground & turned the valves of the engine & got it to go.

Bingfield 5 SATURDAY [95-270] Dividends due at Bank

Oats sowing Monery. Worked at accounts

Shot one Rabbit.

Bingfield 6 SUNDAY – 5 in Lent [96-269]

Morn. service. Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 7 MONDAY [97-268] ‚ 0h 39m P.M. (Greenwich). Quarter Sessions Week

Brady sold oats in Cavan. The engine refused to go. Worked all day at it to no purpose.

5 doz eggs sold @ 2/9 13/9

1 lb butter sold 2/1

Washing 2/6 ½

Set a hen on turkey eggs.

Bingfield 8 TUESDAY [98-267]

Eades Harrowing in Monery. Brady sold the bull in Cavan.

Bingfield 9 WEDNESDAY [99-266] Fire Insurances expire

Mullery came & took away the top of the engine to fit new piston rings

Hunted again for Pat’s films & wrote to Cook about them.

Bingfield 10 THURSDAY [100-265]

Rather seedy after violent colic during the night, probably caused by rhubarb. Sent a tree to be cut into sides for a ladder.

Lent Brady £1 – Paid 10.5.19

Bingfield 11 FRIDAY [101-264]

Not well – Men cleaning the drive.

4^th Month APRIL 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 12 SATURDAY [102-263] Oxford Lent Term ends

Eades cross ploughing flax ground. Brady & Galligan bagging oats

Still seedy

Bingfield 13 Palm SUNDAY [103-262]

Seedy. Sent for Dr. Burke

Bingfield 14 MONDAY [104-261]

In bed. Dr. Burke to see me. Maxwell’s manager from Armagh came to see about papering & painting. Pigs killed for market.

Set hen on turkey’s eggs, Duck’s eggs, & Hen’s eggs.

Bingfield 15 TUESDAY [105-260] 8h 25m A.M. (Greenwich)

Got up. Brady sold my pigs in Cavan. Mullery came & made a temporary repair to the engine with asbestos under the rings.

Set a hen on goose eggs.

Bingfield 16 WEDNESDAY [106-259] Hillary Law Sittings end

Oats being sowed in Unfortunate Field. Roughed out a bit of Bog Oak for Pat & wrote to him about it. Mr. Askins called when I was out.

Signed a requisition for sugar for jam making.

Bingfield 17 THURSDAY [107-258] Maundy Thursday

Cross ploughing for potatoes. Got the boat washed and put in to the Brew house.

Set a hen on goose eggs & a turkey on hens eggs.

Bingfield 18 GOOD FRIDAY [108-257]

Morn. service. Cross ploughing & potatoes are getting ready for planting.

Sent Pat his cheque book, some photos, & other belongings.

1 lb butter sold 2/1

Bingfield 19 SATURDAY [109-256] Easter Even

Wheat harrowing etc. Mended a window in the potting shed

Very warm.

Bingfield 20 EASTER DAY [110-255]

Early Communion. Burrowes came in for a smoke & chat.

4^th Month APRIL 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 21 Easter MONDAY [111-254] Bank Holiday

Warm Day. Put up the sun blind etc. Heard from & wrote to Teddie

11 ½ doz eggs sold £ 1.11.7 ½

2 lb. Butter sold 5/-

Bingfield 22 Easter TUESDAY [112-253] Cambridge Easter Term begins

Warm day. Heard from & wrote to Pat about leave

Potatoe planting in Clerkin’s field. Mended some harness.

Bingfield 23 WEDNESDAY [113-252] St. George. ƒ 11h 21m A.M. (Greenwich).

Drove into Cavan with young Brady and his pony trap. Got my hair cut

silver for wages, saw Mullery etc. Potatoe planting.

Mrs. Brady had another son.

Bingfield 24 THURSDAY [114-251]

Gibney the Carpenter repaired the dogs house & began making a barrow for me. Potatoe planting

Bingfield 25 FRIDAY [115-250] St. Mark, Evan.

Accepted Maxwell of Armagh’s estimate for doing up the library, my room & May’s. Put up the chicken house & repaired a wheel barrow

Gibney at my barrow. Manure carting to Clerkin’s field. Heard from & wrote to Basil.

1 lb butter sold 2/1

Bingfield 26 SATURDAY [116-249]

Potatoe planting. Carpenter at my barrow. Odd jobs

Bingfield 27 Low SUNDAY – 1 after Easter [117-248]

Gale, with storms of snow & hail. Went to Burrowes aft.

Bingfield 28 MONDAY [118-247]

Bitterly cold. Potatoe planting. Odd jobs.

Set a hen on goose eggs

Bingfield 29 TUESDAY [119-246] Easter Law Sittings begin

Calm but cold. Potatoe planting. Measured the men’s ground.

Leaded the pivot of the yard gate, & repaired the gate.

Set a turkey on goose & turkey eggs mixed

5^th Month MAY 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 30 WEDNESDAY [120-245] ˜ 5h 30m A.M. (Greenwich)

Magee repaired slates on the main roof of the house, the Wing & the stables. Potatoe planting – dispute raised by Hoonan which I settled with some trouble.

Bingfield 1 THURSDAY [121-244] SS. Philip and James. Holiday, Stock Exchange

Potatoe planting. Turned Pat’s piece of bog oak, & saw to the spouting on the Wing. Drizzling rain. No newspapers, as a large number of workers of the country have taken a holiday.

8 doz @ 2/10 £1.2.8

Bingfield 2 FRIDAY [122 -243]

Potatoe planting finished. Answered questions from Surveyor of taxes.

Bingfield 3 SATURDAY [123-242]

Flax seed being prepared for sowng etc. Dr. Douglas to see Mrs. Eades.

xxxxBingfield 4 SUNDAY – 2 after Easter [124-241]

Wet morn. Wrote to Teddie. Called on the Smiths aft.

Bingfield 5 MONDAY [125-240] Bank Holiday, Scotland. Royal Academy opens

A sent a note by Wagg to Halpin about Income tax & wrote to the Co. Surveyor to get my maps corrected

Ground being prepared for flax. Too windy for sowing

Bingfield 6 TUESDAY [126-239] King’s Accession, 1910. ‚ 11h 34m P. M.

(Greenwich)

Fine & warmer. Heard from & wrote to Ralph about his prospects

Wrote also to May. Flax sowing in Monery Hill.

Young turkeys hatched

Bingfield 7 WEDNESDAY [127-238]

Fine & warm. Petty Sessions. Put a handle to a hammer. Flax ground being prepared in Unfortunate field.

Bingfield 8 THURSDAY [128-237]

Fine & sunny. Flax sowing in Unfortunate field.

5^th Month MAY 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 9 FRIDAY [129-236] Proclamation, King George V. Half Quarter Day

Fine & warm. Brady bought a cow. Root ground being prepared

Shot 1 Rabbit.

1lb butter 2/-

Bingfield 10 SATURDAY [130-235]

Rather seedy after a bad night from toothache (pyroa) Card from May about coming over. Roots ground being prepared.

Bingfield 11 SUNDAY – 3 after Easter [131-234]

Morn. Service. Heavy showers & thunder. Wrote to Nasir ‘Ali & began letters to May & Basil.

Bingfield 12 MONDAY [132-233]

Meadows being rolled, & Timber sawed in Cavan.

Wire from Pat to say that he & Gunn come on Wednesday.

Bingfield 13 TUESDAY [133-232]

Brady drove Mrs. Wagg to Cavan for shopping. Lunched with the Burrowes

Root ground being prepared.The pumping engine broke down – wrote to Mullery about it.

Butter sold 5/-

Bingfield 14 WEDNESDAY [134-231]

Brady sold cattle in Cavan. May, Laila, Pat & his friend Gunn came by the 4.30 P. M. train.

Bingfield 15 THURSDAY [135-230] 1h 1m A.M. (Greenwich). Scottish Quarter Day

Coal carting & Round house putting up by the Lodge. The boys dug up a bog oak log & went to Cavan.

Bingfield 16 FRIDAY [136-229]

The boys got the bog oak cut up & brought in & paint ready for the boat

Mullery came & re-packed the piston of the engine. Coal carrying.

Telegram from Ralph saying he comes tomorrow.

Bingfield 17 SATURDAY [137-228]

Manure carting to root ground in Clerkins field. Pat & Gunn painting & caulking the boat. Ralph arrived midday. Applied for an extension of leave for Gunn.

Bingfield 18 SUNDAY – 4 after Easter [138-227]

All but Laila to morn. service. Took Gunn round the old Cemetery & fort. The boys to tea at Lismore.

5^th Month MAY 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 19 MONDAY [139-226]

Manure carting to root ground. The boys caught 8 Pike on the lake

Attended Paddy Molloy’s funeral.

Bingfield 20 TUESDAY [140-225]

Hired a motor car, & drove Laila & the boys to Drum Lane Abbey, on through Cavan & Ballinanagh. Fine morn. but wet aft.

Bingfield 21 WEDNESDAY [141-224]

Coal being wheeled in. Galligan went to Cavan for the tree that is to be sawn into a ladder. Worked at the Evinrude engine.

Bingfield 22 THURSDAY [142-223] ƒ 10h P.M. (Greenwich)

Worked all day at the Evinrude. All the coal wheeled in.

Mrs. Eades sick. May laid up with a bad cold.

The boys shot 6 Rabbits & a hare – the latter by mistake for a sitting rabbit –luckily a buck.

Bingfield 23 FRIDAY [143-222]

Worked at the Evinrude & pumping engine. The boys at various jobs about the place.

Bingfield 24 SATURDAY [144-221] Empire Day

Ploughing in the Horse Park. Send an income tax return to the Pay master General. Dr. Smith to Dinner. Ralph left by the midday train

Bingfield 25 Rogation SUNDAY [145-220]

Morn service with Pat & Gunn. they went to Dr. Smith’s aft.

Bingfield 26 MONDAY [146-219] Rogation Day. Queen Mary born, 1867

Gunn heard of his mother’s death. Ploughing in Horse Park & work on potatoe ridges to get off clods. May & Pat went to Kilmore.

Shot one rabbit.

Bingfield 27 TUESDAY [147-218] Rogation Day

Pat & I fixed the fly wheel of the pumping engine etc.

Cross-doney fair.

Bingfield 28 WEDNESDAY [148-217] Rogation Day

Pat Gunn & I with Laila went out on the lake & caught 65 Perch – some unusually large. We took an engine lent to us by Dr. Smith but it would not go. Hawks took one of our young turkeys and one yesterday, & were after them persistently in the evening.

5^th Month MAY 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 29 THURSDAY [149-216] Ascension Day. ˜ 1h 12m P.M. (Greenwich)

Pat began, & I finished (Brady helping) to large wire chicken runs to save the turkeys from hawks. The boys went to Kilnaleck. Wages inspector from Board of Agriculture called. Dr. Douglas came to see young Robt. Brady who is very ill. Dr. Smith came even & took away the magneto of the Simplex boat engine.

Shot one rabbit.

Bingfield 31 SATURDAY [151-214] Ramadân (Turkish Lent) begins

Turnips sowing. Eades was kicked by mare& hurt. Sent for Dr. Burke

Called the Evinrude to pieces & put it into a box. Pat & Gunn went to the Burrowes even.

Shot one rabbit.

6^th Month JUNE 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 1 JUNE SUNDAY after Ascension [152-213]

All the rest to Church. I went to see Eades, who has 2 or 3 ribs broken & also Mary Fitzpatrick who has swollen feet.

Bingfield 2 MONDAY [153-212]

Turnips sowing in the Horse Park. Pat went to Cavan. The rest to the Scotts. Doctor. Burke came after dinner & told me that Mary Fitzpatrick has heart disease, & is very ill.

Bingfield 3 TUESDAY [154-211] King George V. born, 1865

Turnip sowing. Drove by a motor car & called on the Saundersons at Castle Saunderson. They showed us the bog garden etc. while Laila played with the twins.

Bingfield 4 WEDNESDAY [155-210]

turnip sowing. Petty Sessions. Pat & Gunn left.

Bingfield 5 THURSDAY [156-209] ‚ 0h 22m P. M. (Greenwich)

Brady went to Bellturbot fair, but bought nothing. Maxwells men came to begin work on the library etc. Accounts etc.

Bingfield 6 FRIDAY [157-208] Easter Law Sittings end. Oxford Easter Term ends

Turnip sowing. Maxwells men began the library. Saw Mary Fitzpatrick & half persuaded her to go to the infirmary.

Bingfield 7 SATURDAY [158-207] Oxford Trinity Term begins

Turnip sowing. Sent in a claim to the Gen. Accident Assurance Co. for Eades.

Heavy showers.

6^th Month JUNE 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 8 WHIT SUNDAY [159-206] Ember Week

Showers. Quiet day at home. May to went to see Mary Fitzpatrick

Bingfield 9 Whitsun MONDAY [160-205] Bank Holiday

Brady bought 6 cattle at Arva fair. Moved furniture in May’s room & mine & got up carpets for the painters. Saw Mary Fitzpatrick, who is much better. Wrote to Basil.

Bingfield 10 Whitsun TUESDAY [161-204]

Frequent showers. Heard from Pat that he sails on the 14^th for New Zealand. Brady sold a heifer & bought 2 bullocks for me. Got the magneto for Dr. Smith’s simplex engine & set it running. Galligan breaking clods in potatoe ground in Clerkin’s field. Sent the crank case of my Evinrude to London to get a new part fitted.

Bingfield 11 WEDNESDAY [162-203] St. Barnabas, Ap. Ember Day

Potatoes being prepared for moulding. Painters at bedrooms. Prepared an old desk & made a key for the lock & another for a padlock. Hot day.

Shot 2 Rabbits

Bingfield 12 THURSDAY [168-202]

A very heavy rain storm flooded the house right down to the drawing room through the valley on the roof over flowing. Worked at fitting the lock to the old desk. Mr. Rowan (Maxwell’s foreman) came to see the work, and we arranged to have the hall done & cleared it for the purpose.

Bingfield 13 FRIDAY [164-201] 4h 28m P. M. (Greenwich). Ember Day

Men cutting weeds in the garden, yard, etc. Magees at the Demesne wall

Mullery came & took out the pumping engine. Set traps & a spring gun for a hog that prowls round any young chickens. Wrote to Eleanor Garnett.

Bingfield 14 SATURDAY [165-200] Ember Day

Turf cutting. Magees at the Demesne wall. Mullery completely refitted the pumping engine, & tried the simplex on the rain water tank; cleaned out & re-filled the latter.

Bingfield 15 TRINITY SUNDAY [166-199]

May went to church. I rested, being very tired after my work of yesterday.

Bingfield 16 MONDAY [167-198]

Raising Sand in the Bell Grove for the Magees who are at the Demesne wall. Showers & cold.

Bingfield 17 TUESDAY [168-197] Trinity Law

Turf making in Back Lawn. Magees at the Demesne wall. Put up wood sheeting in my dressing room & a pair of sash lines in the Waggs bed room.

6^th Month JUNE 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 18 WEDNESDAY [169-196]

Turf making. Magees at Demesne wall. Chained up my corn for the Board of Agriculture. The papering & painting nearly done. Saw Mary Fitzpatrick who is very averse to go to hospital, & all so young Brady who is very ill indeed. Wrote to Dr. Douglas to come & see him. Eades also is not so well.

Bingfield 19 THURSDAY [170-195] Corpus Christi

Brady at his own turf. Holiday for the men. The papering etc finished.

Sent a form to the police giving an account of produce etc on the place & made outperforms for self & Brady of the areas under corn.

Dr. Cullen came to see Eades & broke his ribs again, as they were wrongly set.

Mr. Askins came to see me about it at nearly midnight.

Bingfield 20 FRIDAY [171-194]

Potatoe moulding. The Magees finished & I paid them off. Dr Cullen set Eade’s ribs, & had him removed to the infirmary. Dr. Clarke came to see young Brady, who is desperately ill. May & I finished getting the books into one part of the library, & got in a good many others

Bingfield 21 SATURDAY [172-193] ƒ 5h 33m A.M. (Greenwich)

Men at Brady’s turf. May & I worked at getting books, furniture & pictures into the library

Bingfield 22 SUNDAY – 1 after Trinity [173-192] Coronation King George V., 1911

Stayed at home, arranged the hall, & wrote to Florie about Ralph

Bingfield 23 MONDAY [174-191] Prince of Wales born, 1894

Drove into Cavan to a meeting for getting up a reception to returned soldiers. Saw Eades in the infirmary

Bingfield 24 TUESDAY [175-190] St. John Baptist. Midsummer Day. Quarter Day.

Cambridge Easter Term ends

Part of the Cow Pasture mowed, but heavy rain came on aft.

Worked at putting our rooms straight, curtain rods etc. & text of the Pooley of the pumping engine. Heavy rain came on aft

Bingfield 25 WEDNESDAY [176-189]

Mangolds being weeded & thinned. Made a long hook for the library ladder-chair. Ralph came by the 4.30 P.M. Train from London

Bingfield 26 THURSDAY [177-188]

Brady took the mare to Virginia to be left there with a horse. Mangolds being thinned & a little scuffling on the drive. Ralph spent the day on the lake. Cold & showery.

Bingfield 27 FRIDAY [178-187] ˜ 8h 53m P.M. (Greenwich)

Brady went to Dublin with his sick son. Got the carpets down in our rooms & the lobby. Hay turned in the Cow pasture & the drive scuffled.

6^th Month JUNE 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 28 SATURDAY [179-186]

Settled the last of the furniture & eased & re-painted the edge of the library door. Mangolds being trimmed. Mc. Donald absent because his wife had broken out again. Ralph went to the Atkinsons.

Bingfield 29 SUNDAY – 2 after Trinity [180-185] St. Peter, Ap.

We all went to the morn. service except Laila.

Bingfield 30 MONDAY [181-184] Quarter Sessions Week

Ten cocks of hay put up in the cow pasture. Fixed up & old lock & put it on to the potting shed. Ralph caulked the pram & put it onto the pond.

7^th Month JULY 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 1 JULY TUESDAY [182-183] Dominion Day, Canada

Turnip thinning. Brady went to fetch back the mare, & Galligan to Cavan for a hay rake. Found a big dog dead at 5.30 a.m. From poison I had put down. Turned an oak dish for the nave of the go-cart. May & I stained the floor in her room.

Bingfield 2 WEDNESDAY [183-182]

Mowing in the Cow pasture, the Lawn, & Barrack field. Put down oil cloth in May’s room. Raith & I finished the wheel of the go-cart. Heard from Lord Carmichael about Ralph. Long letter from Teddie. Got the chickens down to the flower garden

Bingfield 3 THURSDAY [184-181]

Hay mowing in Barrack field & turnip thinning. Ralph went to the lake. Wired in the lower well. Accounts. Wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 4 FRIDAY [185-180] declaration of American independence Hay making in the Cow pasture. Signed Ret. Pay Voucher before Dr. Smith.

Bingfield 5 SATURDAY [186-179] ‚ 3h 17m A.M. (Greenwich). Oxford Trinity Term ends Dividends due at Bank

Eighteen cocks of hay put up in the Barrack Field. Fine hot day.

Ralph went to tennis in Cavan.

Bingfield 6 SUNDAY – after Trinity [187-178]

I alone to Church. Orange Sunday, & thanks-giving for peace.

Bingfield 7 MONDAY [188-177]

Hay in making in the Horse Park. Port Arthur Sash line to the lobby window & cemented the frame.

Event Brady £7. Paid £6 – 12.7.19

Paid in full 26.7.19

7^th Month JULY 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 8 TUESDAY [189-176]

Hay making in the Cow pasture & Lawn. Odd jobs.

Bingfield 9 WEDNESDAY [190-175] Fire Insurances expire

Went after Hawks to the Rocks & shot one. Hay making

Bingfield 10 THURSDAY [191-174]

Attended the assizes. Dr. Smith drove me there & Ferris of Cor part of the way home. Haymaking in Farnadaly.

Bingfield 11 FRIDAY [192-173]

My 65^th. Birthday – Laila gave me a penny! Mowing in Farnadaly. Cool & cloudy. Fixed up a barrel with a lap for Brady to cart water, as his well has run dry.

Bingfield 12 SATURDAY [193-172]

Every one except Mc. Donald and I went to the Orange Walk at Farnham Galligan driving May & Laila. Wrote to Lord Carmichael, Shepherd of the India Office, & Florie. Stormy & chilly.

Bingfield 13 SUNDAY – 4 after Trinity [194-171] 6h 2m A.M. (Greenwich)

May to church. Quiet day at home. Cold & slight rain.

Bingfield 14 MONDAY [195-170]

Mowing in Monery bottoms & some weed cutting. Changed a frayed rope on the lift & polished fire irons. Miss Sweet & the Maxwell girls to tea. Heard from & wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 15 TUESDAY [196-169]

Haymaking in Farnadaly. Cold morn. Very hot aft.

Bingfield 16 WEDNESDAY [197-168]

Watered the garden with the hose. Haymaking in Farnadaly.

Bingfield 17 THURSDAY [198-167]

Hay making as yesterday. Went to see Mary Fitzpatrick, who is dying

Got Mrs. Smith to do what she could for Called for Father Lynch, but he was out. Wrote to Marcel Bizardel. After dinner Mc. Donald came & reported Mary was dead.

Bingfield 18 FRIDAY [199-166]

Hay making Until heavy rain stopped it. Mrs. Scott & Daisy & Miss Sweet to tea. Laila’s 8^th. birthday.

Bingfield 19 SATURDAY [200-165]

Not much farm work. Galligan & Mc. Donald digging Mary’s gravel and attending the funeral. Brady & I went over & secured a few letters etc from her house. May, Laila, & I drove to the Peace Thanks-giving & Sports at Kilmore. Borrowes drove me back.

7^th Month JULY 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 20 SUNDAY – after Trinity [201-164] 5 after Trinity [201-164] ƒ 11h 3m A.M. (Greenwich)

Morn. service with May. Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 21 MONDAY [202-163]

Hay making in the Monery bottom. May & Laila to tea at the Scotts

Cold & light rain even.

Bingfield 22 TUESDAY [203-162]

Haymaking in Monery bottom. Talk out by main beam of my Swath turner, which was broken yesterday. May & I picked gooseberries & rasberries. Sent journey money to Vera & Basil.

Bingfield 23 WEDNESDAY [204-161]

Haymaking in Farnadaly. Mrs. Askins & 3 children to tea. Mrs. & Miss Moore of Lisnamandra called.

Bingfield 24 THURSDAY [205-160]

Hay cutting in Monery, & turnip thinning. Received the crank case of my Evinrude & put it together, but it will not work coding to some stiffness of which I cannot find out the cause.

Bingfield 25 FRIDAY [206-159] St. James, Ap.

Very hot. Heard of the death of Mrs. Vincent Kennedy. Haymaking in Monery & mowing in Glouds field.

Bingfield 26 SATURDAY [207-158]

Haymaking in Monery & Glouds field. Wagg & I burnt weeds. Saw Mrs Smith morn. who told me about Mrs. Kennedy’s death

Bingfield 27 SUNDAY – 6 after Trinity [208-157] ˜ 5h 21m A. M. (Greenwich)

Morn. service. Quiet day at home

Bingfield 28 MONDAY [209-156]

Haymaking in Glouds field. Sent a note to Mr. Askins to arrange about Eade’s going to Dublin.

Bingfield 29 TUESDAY [210-155]

Haymaking in Glouds field. Mr. Askins came to see me about Eades

Mended the fence opposite to the Lodge.

Bingfield 30 WEDNESDAY [211-154]

Haymaking in Gloud’s field. Helped the carpenter to make a trestle for the Evinrude. Wrote to the Insurance Co. about Eades & to the police at Coote hill about a complaint that Brady had run over a goat.

7^th Month JULY 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 31 THURSDAY [212-153] Trinity Law Sittings end

Haymaking & turnip thinning. Vera & Basil came home.

Gibney & I turned a nave for a wheel. Brady went to Dublin to see his son who is much worse.

Basil shot 4 rabbits

8^th Month August 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 1 AUG FRIDAY [213-152] Lammas Day. Scottish Quarter Day

Only Mc. Donald & Hoonan at work, as Gilligan is sick. Brady brought back his boy from Dublin, turned another nave for a cart wheel.

Bingfield 2 SATURDAY [214-151]

Turnip thinning. Odd jobs.

Basil shot 3 rabbits.

Bingfield 3 SUNDAY – 7 after Trinity [215-150] ‚ 8h 12m P.M. (Greenwich)

Face swollen from a bee sting. Vera still in bed, as she has been since she came home, apparently from an internal chill. We none of us went to church

Bingfield 4 MONDAY [216-149] Bank Holiday. Royal Academy closes.

War declared between Great Britain and Germany, 1914

Turnip thinning. Basil went for Dr. Douglas, who came to see Vera about her nettle rash. Scuffled part of the drive & part of the walk by the green house, gathered onions etc.

Bingfield 5 TUESDAY [217-148]

Turnip thinning. Turned 13 ferrules for handles. Sold the large silver salver for £100 cash to a dealer.

Bingfield 6 WEDNESDAY [218-147]

Rushes & “Sprats” being cut for flax ties. My Evinrude came back from Mullery in working order. Dr. Douglas to see Vera.

Wrote to Charlie to tell her of yesterday’s transaction

Bingfield 7 THURSDAY [219-146]

Making flax ties & getting timber for fencing etc out of the wood.

Wrote to Teddie & to his munshi in Hindustani. Turned 4 tool handles for Gibney. Watered with the hose. Dr. & Mrs. Smith called.

Basil took the “pram” off the pond to Castle Cosby Lake after dinner.

Bingfield 8 FRIDAY [220-145]

Flax ties being made. Turned two tool handles. Tested the Evinrude, but found it will not go.

8^th Month August 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 9 SATURDAY [221-144]

Flax ties making. Gathered crab apples. Turned two tool handles.

Watered with the hose & other odd jobs.

Bingfield 10 SUNDAY – three after Trinity [222-143]

Morn. service with May. Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 11 MONDAY [223-142] 5h 40m P. M. (Greenwich). Half Quarter Day

Flax pulling in Monery begun. Wrote to Capt. Pullinger about Basil’s report which is not good. Turned a tool handle & a handle for a hand fire screen. Mrs. Scott & the children came for gooseberries

Dr. Douglas came, but saw no one. He broke the wire of the front door bell – mended it.

Bingfield 12 TUESDAY [224-141] Grouse Shooting begins

Flax pulling in Monery. Vera & Basil to tennis at the Atkinsons

May & Laila to tea at Castle Cosby. Carpenter at my ladder rungs & painting the gates for the drive. Heard of the death of “Chops” Leslie.

Bingfield 13 WEDNESDAY [225-140]

Flax pulling in Monery. Heard from & wrote to Charlie.

Bingfield 14 THURSDAY [226-139]

Flax retting. Heard from Cecil Leslie that Chop’s funeral is tomorrow

Received a half crank case from America for my Evinrude.

Turned a lot of ladder rungs.

Bingfield 15 FRIDAY [227-138]

Holiday for the men. Attended “Chops” Leslie’s funeral.

Bingfield 16 SATURDAY [228-137]

Flax retting. Turned all the ladder rungs except 6.

Bingfield 17 SUNDAY – 9 after Trinity [229-136]

Morn. service with Vera & Basil. Quiet Day.

9^th Month SEPTEMBER 1919 30 Days

Bingfield Sept 1

Wrote after post time, to the Gen. Accident Assurance Co. & to Askins about Eade’s case. Damp unpleasant day, & very little farm work done. Basil & Brady went to the lake after duck, but saw none, they brought back 9 rabbits. Mr. Askins called after dinner & we talked over Eade’s case.

9^th Month SEPTEMBER 1919 30 Days

Bingfield Sept 2 TUESDAY

Find with heavy showers. Foster came with his reaper & binder, & began to work in Monery. Got up the new ladder to the Kitchen chimney.

Carpenter painting. Vera & Basil went to the lake & caught 20 fish.

Bingfield Sept 3 WEDNESDAY

Reaping in Monery. Carpenter painting the tank, old laundry windows etc. All the rest went to a tennis tournament in Cavan.

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8^th Month August 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 28 THURSDAY

Wet & cold. Men packing hay & getting ready a flax hole in Clerkin’s field. Carpenter painting doors.

Bingfield 29 FRIDAY

Fine & warmer. Flax retting. Carpenter painting. Basil & I cut ivy & willows in the lower garden.

Bingfield 30 SATURDAY

Hay carting – Carpenter painting. And Basil & I cut ivy in Lower Garden

Fixed the ventilating pipe of the house drains.

Bingfield 31 SUNDAY

Morn. service alone at Kilmore Quiet day at home.

8^th Month August 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 18 MONDAY

Flax pulling. Wrote to Nasir Ali. Made a key for potting house lock

Turned the last of the ladder rungs etc.

Bingfield 19 TUESDAY

Hay carting to Haggard begun. Various odd jobs. Capt Basil & I shot some blackbirds in the garden that are at the fruit. Mrs. Smith & Peggy & Doreen to tea.

Bingfield 20 WEDNESDAY

Flax drying. Ripped off by skirting boards from the old laundry & Gibney began to put in cement to keep out rats.

Bingfield 21 THURSDAY

Flax drying & retting various odd jobs. Gibney at Old Laundry.

The Moores (Kilmore) to tea. Some showers.

8^th Month August 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 22 FRIDAY

Flax pulling & retting. A lot of odd jobs. Gibney finished the old laundry & went on with the ladder.

Bingfield 23 SATURDAY

Flax work as before. Carpenter finished the long ladder. Basil & I cut nettles & gathered apples in the lower garden. Eades came back from Dublin.

Bingfield 24 SUNDAY

May & Vera to church. Quiet day at home.

Bingfield Aug 25 MONDAY

Wet day. Men making flax ties tyres. Carpenter at the large gates of the lower garden & Basil’s box. A quantity of odd jobs. Very tired

Received a report on Eades from the Adelaide Hospital & wrote for further information. Wrote also to the Gen. Accident Insurance Co.

Bingfield Aug 26 TUESDAY

Wet & cold. Drove into Cavan for shopping. Wrote to Mr. Askins about Eade’s case, & had a talk with Eades on the subject. Carpenter repaired the hay rake, Basil’s box & the sawing frame, & began painting wood doors etc in the yard.

Bingfield Aug 27 WEDNESDAY

Flax pulling finished. Carpenter painting garden doors etc.

Soldered an oil can & mended some saucepans.

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9^th Month SEPTEMBER 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 4 THURSDAY [247-118]

Flax being stooked & reaping & binding in Monery. Carpenter making brackets to hang up the new ladder. Put 5 panes of glass into the old dairy windows.

Bingfield 5 FRIDAY [248-117]

Brady’s oats being reaped. Heavy showers. Carpenter painting the larger doors of Lower Garden & helping me to repair a sash in the potting shed. Basil & I cut ivy.

Bingfield 6 SATURDAY [249-116]

Reaping & building in Barrack Field & Round Bank, & flax spreading

Carpenter finished the pier of the Bullock yard gate & got up spikes & brackets to hold the new ladder against the garden wall.

Bingfield 7 SUNDAY – after Trinity [250-115]

May & Vera to church. Wrote a long letter to Teddie.

9^th Month SEPTEMBER 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 8 MONDAY [251-114]

Reaping in Round Bank “Charlie” lame, but Foster’s pony took his place. Mended the spouting at the Lodge & put a new key to the pulley of the pumping engine

Bingfield 9 TUESDAY [252-113]

Cavan fair. Brady sold 3 head of cattle. Reaping in Unfortunate field

Carpenter put up the roof over the ladder. I glazed the potting shed

Bingfield 10 WEDNESDAY [253-112] 3h 54m A. M. (Greenwich)

Heard from the Ministry of Pensions that they intend to revise my Retired Pay. Replied Reaping finished.

Bingfield 11 THURSDAY [254-111]

Flax spreading. Heavy rain aft. Wrote to Os & sent him a P. Order for the spare part of my Evinrude. Gibson, vet, came to see my horse Charlie.

Bingfield 12 FRIDAY [255-110]

Wet morn, but fine aft Gibson came to see Charlie & made Dillon pare his hoof, & prescribed poultices. Hay carting Cut a lot of laurels in the Bell grove.

Bingfield 13 SATURDAY [256-109]

Fine. Oats being stacked in the Round Bank. Cut Laurels in the Bell Grove.

Bingfield 14 SUNDAY – 13 after Trinity [257-108] Ember Week

Morn. service with Basil. Quiet day.

Bingfield 15 MONDAY [258-107]

Went to try for ducks at Castle Cosby with Basil. He shot one, but it got away in the reeds. Preparations for thrashing. Cut a lot of laurels in the Bell grove.

Bingfield 16 TUESDAY [259-106] ƒ 9h 32m P.M. (Greenwich)

A little hay carting & stacking oats for thrashing. Cut laurels on the drive.

Bingfield 17 WEDNESDAY [260-105] Ember Day

May & I went to Cavan by train to see the tennis tournament, & attend a meeting of the club. Saw Mullery & found the cause of the Evinrude engine trouble. Boarded our new-crank shaft.

Bingfield 18 THURSDAY [261-104]

Thrashing morn. Gave provisional notice to withdraw Vera from school etc. The thrashing engine broke down. I made a new spring & turned a spindle for it, but it still would not go. Very tired.

Bingfield 19 FRIDAY [262-103] Ember Day

Men stacking oats & bringing in some flax. The thrashing engine refused to go after starting once when I had done some work on it

Mullery came, but failed to make it go.

9^th Month SEPTEMBER 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 20 SATURDAY [263-102] Ember Day

Murray got the thrashing engine to go, after finding a leak in the partition between the petrol & parafin tanks. A good deal of work was done later, a washer blew out, & I made a new one. Various odd jobs

Sold on my bicycle to John Lang for £ 6.10.0 of which he paid £5

6/- Paid 27.9.19. 6/-page 4.10.19 – 6/-paid 11.10.19 – 6/- Paid 18.10.19 paid 2/6 – 25.10.19 paid in full 31.10.19

Bingfield 21 SUNDAY – 14 after Trinity [264-101] St. Matthew, Ap.

May, Vera, & Basil to church. Wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 22 MONDAY [265-100]

Wet most of the day, but thrashing was continued. Basil & Vera left by the early train. Repaired my petrol lighter

Bingfield 23 TUESDAY [266-99]

My thrashing finished for the present. Sent Basil his tooth brush etc which he left behind. Mullery came late & fitted a pipe to the thrashing engine & a new petrol tank with it. Wrote to Hutton about Vera.

Bingfield 24 WEDNESDAY [267-98] ˜ 4h 34m A.M. (Greenwich)

Mullery came morn. & I turned a collar for the screw of his vice. Some hay carting

25 THURSDAY [268-97] Jewish Year 5680 begins

Drove into Cavan by motor & took the 9.a.m. train for Belfast, was examined by a medical board with a view to an increase of pension, & took the 2.50 P. M. train back – Mullery drove me out. Hay being brought in.

Bingfield 26 FRIDAY [269-96] Mohammedan Year 1338 begins

Showers. Hay shifting & flax lifting.

Bingfield 27 SATURDAY [270-95]

Fine with a shower. Hay carting & flax lifting. Cut laurels in the Bell grove. Railway strike all over England.

Bingfield 28 SUNDAY – 15 after Trinity [271-94]

Morn. service – political sermon from Mr. Askins. Quiet day.

Bingfield 29 MONDAY [272-93] St. Michael And All Angels. Michaelmas Day.

Wet. Hay Carting. Winter time begun. Began reading to Laila

Bingfield 30 TUESDAY [273-92]

Fine. Hay carting. Wrote to Askins about Eades, who is in a queer temper.

10^th Month OCTOBER 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 1 OCT WEDNESDAY [274-91] Cambridge Michaelmas Term begins. Pheasant Shooting Begins

Signed my Ret. Pay. before Burrowes & sent it to Cox. Heavy showers. Laurels being cut for base of a rick of hay. Turf carting etc.

Bingfield 2 THURSDAY [275-90] ‚ 8h 37m A.M. (Greenwich)

Very bad cold. Laila also laid up. Hay & flax carting. Got the broken piece out of the large lodge gates – the loop of the bolt broken some time ago

Wrote to Teddie, & to the Gen. Accident calling attention to my letter of a fortnight ago.

Bingfield 3 FRIDAY [276-89]

My cold still bad. Fine day. Flax lifting. Mr. Askins called. Some odd jobs.

Bingfield 4 SATURDAY [277-88]

Brady’s son Robert died about 1 a.m. Hay carting. Lang & I cut some of the ivy on the stables.

Advanced Brady £ 3 – Paid £1.8 .0 same day Paid £1 – 11.10.19

Paid in full 25.10.19

Bingfield 5 SUNDAY – 16 after Trinity [278-87]

May to church Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 6 MONDAY [279-86] Dividends due at Bank

Attended the funeral of Robt. Brady. Small jobs done about the place. Turned a small peg for the kitchen hat rack. Slept badly

Bingfield 7 TUESDAY [280-85]

Damp muggy day. Men in the garden. Put the bolt onto the front gate.

Bingfield 8 WEDNESDAY [281-84]

Fine & sunny. Letter from Teddie enclosing one from his Munshi. Flax cutting etc. & the wheat cut.

Bingfield 9 THURSDAY [282-83] 1h 39m P.M. (Greenwich)

Flax carting & oats stacking. Had a little trouble with the pumping engine. Mrs. Askins & children to tea.

Bingfield 10 FRIDAY [283-82] Oxford Michaelmas Term begins

My old flax being steeped & some carried in. Shot along the Terrace hill with Brady & his dogs.

Shot 3 rabbits & a snipe, & Brady one rabbit

10^th Month OCTOBER 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 11 SATURDAY [284-81]

Brady’s hay, & the last of my flax got in. Odd jobs.

Bingfield 12 SUNDAY – 17 after Trinity [285-80]

Morn. service. Lord Farnham gave an address on the Church Central Emergency fund.

Bingfield 13 MONDAY [286-79] Michaelmas Law Sittings begin. Quarter Sessions Week

Men pulling turnips. Drove in a hired motor car with May, Laila, & Brady to Cloggy, Lackeu, & Oak flax mills to see about the scutching of my flax. Shot a little on the way. I began well, but ended by not being able to hit a bird. Soldered a lock onto a tin box, for which I had fitted a key. Wrote to Surveyor of Taxes about a missing P.O 9/-sent by May

Shot 4 Snipe – one lost.

Bingfield 14 TUESDAY [287-78] Fire Insurances expire

Brady sold one bullock at Cavan fair. Eades & Lang at the Monery main drain. Gathered apples & pears with May. Had to take off the lock of the outer workshop after dinner, as some one head jammed a wrong key in it.

Bingfield 15 WEDNESDAY [288-77]

Hay carting & a large pike built in the haggard. Put on the lock of the outer workshop door. Finished cleaning my skates, sharpened May’s scissors, & wrote to Basil

Bingfield 16 THURSDAY [289-76] (5h 5m A.M. (Greenwich)

Hay pike re-headed etc. Jackson of Killagowan came to sharpen my saws. Shot around Leggiland & Swann’s bog. Saw 4 snipe openly 3 of which I knocked over but one fell into a potatoe patch where after a long search I put it up evidently wounded, but it flew over a house & I did not go after it. Minnie Livingston came to see Laila.

Shot 2 Snipe

Bingfield 17 FRIDAY [290-75]

The hay practically all brought in. Slightly out of sorts.

Bingfield 18 SATURDAY [291-74] St. Luke, Evan.

Apples being gathered. Fitted up shelves etc. Miss Sweet called.

Bingfield 19 SUNDAY – 18 after Trinity [292-73]

May to Church. Quiet day. Wrote to Ralph

Bingfield 20 MONDAY [293-72]

Stack of oats thatched etc. Helped Johnny Wagg to make a picture frame.

10^th Month OCTOBER 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 21 TUESDAY [294-71] Nelson Day (1805)

Brady to Cavan to get hedge knives & rope. Hay Pikes re-headed

I went to Cavan with Mrs. Wagg.

Bingfield 22 WEDNESDAY [295-70]

Ricks being thatched & turf brought in. Shot a little with Brady & dogs.

Shot 1 Rabbit & Brady 2.

Bingfield 23 THURSDAY [296-69] ˜3h 40 P.M. (Greenwich)

Men clearing the Lower Pleasure Ground. Made two keys etc.

Mrs. Moore (Bishops wife) called & talk May to Crossdoney.

Bingfield 24 FRIDAY [297-68]

My old flax spread & clearing the lower pleasure ground. Simons came & valued might produce for insurance – sent a proposal to the Sun Office. Lantern Lecture in the old Church on the campaign in Palestine in the old Church with May & Laila at 7.30 P. M.

Bingfield 25 SATURDAY [298-67]

Potato digging in Clerkin’s field with Burroughs’ digger Mrs. Scott & Daisy to tea. Called on the Smiths & arrange to go to Cavern with it and on Tuesday.

Bingfield 26 SUNDAY – 19 after Trinity [299-66]

Morn. service. Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 27 MONDAY [300-65]

Potatoe digging. worked at sparking plugs & a lamp for the kitchen.

May, Laila, & Mrs. Wagg went to Drumroe to get cranberries, but found very few.

Bingfield 28 TUESDAY [301-64] SS. Simon and Jude

Dr. Smith drove me to Cavan for business with the Bank etc.

I came back by train. Potatoe digging.

Bingfield 29 WEDNESDAY [302-63]

Potatoe picking. Dining room cleaned. Mrs. Moore (Lisnamandra) called.

May bought a pony for Laila.

Bingfield 30 THURSDAY [303-62]

Brady went to Clones to try to get a horse, but failed to do so.

Potato digging. May & Laila to tea with the Scotts.

Bingfield 31 FRIDAY [304-66]

Potatoe digging Odd jobs. Mister. Askins called. Laila rode her pony

11^th Month NOVEMBER 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 1 NOV SATURDAY [305-60] All Saints’ Day. ‚ 1h 43m A.M (Greenwich). Holiday, Stock Exchange

Holiday for the men. Mrs. Scott & Daisy & Miss Sweet to tea.

Bingfield 2 SUNDAY – 20 after Trinity [306-59]

May to church. Monument to those who fell in the war unveiled.

Bingfield 3 MONDAY [307-58]

Ferreted with Brady. Mainly & Laila went to tea at Farnham. I joined them later. We all came home in the Farnham motor car.

Teddie Wires from Delhi that he is ordered to the frontier

Shot 2 rabbits, Brady 2, & dug out 2

Bingfield 4 TUESDAY [308-57]

Ditch between the Rocks & Front Lawn being cleaned, & wheat sown

Cleaned my magneto & got the engine to run. It refused yesterday.

Bingfield 5 WEDNESDAY [309-56] Gunpowder Plot

Heard from & replied to Gen. Accident Co. about settling Eade’s case

They had never answered my letter of the last week in September.

Wrote to my mother for her 90^th birthday which is next Friday. Worked nearly all day at the engine, but failed to start it. Men in the garden.

Bingfield 6 THURSDAY [310-55]

Flax went to Cloggy mill. Men in the garden. The engine ran alright.

Fixed some bed knobs for Mrs. Wagg.

Bingfield 7 FRIDAY [311-54] 11h 35m P.M. (Greenwich)

My mother’s 90^th birthday. Ploughing for wheat in Clerkin’s field

Ferreted with Brady. Cavern fair.

Shot 2 rabbits & Brady 1 Dug out 4

Bingfield 8 SATURDAY [312-53]

Men in the garden. Miss Sweet called. Odd jobs.

Bingfield 9 SUNDAY 21 after Trinity [313-52]

Slight snow morn, but fine after. Put out to ground fires in the Lower Pleasure Ground. Wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 10 MONDAY [314-51]

May & Laila went to Dalkey by the early train. Men in the garden & flax sent to the mill & some brought back.

11^th Month NOVEMBER 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 11 TUESDAY [315-50] Martinmas. Scottish Quarter Day. Half Quarter Day

Sheridan came & went round the Desmene with maps to check boundaries & cultivatable land. Mullery also came in answer to my card of last Wednesday which only reached him yesterday. I had wired to put him off on Thursday. More flax went to the mill. Got the fowls out of garden

Bingfield 12 WEDNESDAY [316-49]

Brady sold 5 head at Cavan fair. Snow lying & Frost.

Odd jobs.

One beast (bullock) sold today at £15 belongs to May

Bingfield 13 THURSDAY [317-48]

Sunny & frost. Flax sent to the mill & some brought back. Men at the raspberry brake. The belt of my engine broke. Repaired it.

Bingfield 14 FRIDAY [318-47] ƒ 3h 41m P. M. (Greenwich)

Sunny & hard frost. Tried for rabbits with Brady & dogs, but got none.

Flax going to & coming from the mill, work on the Raspberry Brake & covering potatoe heaps.

Bingfield 15 SATURDAY [319-46]

Sunny & hard frost. Ferreted with Brady. Rabbits in very hard to bolt.

Flax going & coming from the mill, & a little hedge cutting done.

Shot 2 rabbits, & Brady one.

Bingfield 16 SUNDAY – 22 after Trinity [320-45]

Thaw. Stayed at home & lit fires in the stoves. Brady’s baby taken ill.

Sent Wagg to see what he could do, & Eades for the doctor.

Bingfield 17 MONDAY [321-44]

Odd jobs about the place. Heard of an accident on the railway no papers came. Hilda writes to say she cannot come. Wrote to May and Evie. Letter from Teddie

Bingfield 18 TUESDAY [322-43]

Flax going to & from the mill. Men cleaning the raspberry brake.

Bingfield 19 WEDNESDAY [323-42]

Cleaning the raspberry brake. Brady made a new crutches for the cart shambles. Called on Dr. Smith to get him to drive May home.

Bingfield 20 THURSDAY [324-41]

The last of my flax scotched. Men cleaning ditches. Put up a shelf in the ammunition cupboard in the library.

11^th Month NOVEMBER 1919 30 Days

Bingfield 21 FRIDAY [325-40]

Flax packed for Clones market tomorrow. Cleared a drain in the front lawn. Wrote to Canada to try to get a crankshaft for my Evinrude.

Shot 1 Pigeon

Bingfield 22 SATURDAY [326-39] ˜ 3h 20m P.M. (Greenwich)

Brady sold my flax in Clones. Put a wood bottom to a bucket, & rubber heels & soles on Laila’s shoes & made a gong out of a part of an old air gun.

Bank of Ireland

Cheque Board of Trade Flax Control Board

Shot 1 Pigeon A /A 013959 – Date 22 Nov. 1919

Clones market Signed John – Patterson

Bingfield 23 SUNDAY – 23 after Trinity [327-38]

Stayed at home & wrote a long letter to my mother etc.

Bingfield 24 MONDAY [328-37]

Men carting straw for cattle & collecting fallen timber.

Ferretted with Brady

Shot 4 Rabbits, Brady 2, & dug out one.

Bingfield 25 TUESDAY [329-36]

Men pulling carrots, cutting firewood etc. Wet morn. Glued a hall chair etc.

Bingfield 26 WEDNESDAY [330-35]

Men bringing in fallen timber. Lord Farm sent 5 bundles trees

Fine with Frost aft. May went to Kevitt. Crankshaft for Evinrude came

Confirmed my provisional notice for Vera to leave Cheltenham

shot 2 pigeons out of the front door.

Bingfield 27 THURSDAY [331-34]

Brady bought a mare for me at Kilgdagh fair for £45. Men bringing in timber.

Bingfield 28 FRIDAY [332-33]

Frost. Men getting in fallen timber. My engine belt broke. Began to repair it.

Bingfield 29 SATURDAY [333-32]

Slight thaw followed by hard frost. Finished my engine belt.

Men clearing the main ditch into Round Bank, & cutting weeds out of the yard.

Shot 2 pigeons out of the front door.

Picked up another next day

Bingfield 30 SUNDAY – 1 in Advent [334-31] St. Andrew, Ap.

‚ 4h 47m P.M. (Greenwich)

Heavy rain. Funeral of Brady’s baby which died last night.

Stayed at home & wrote to Charlie.

12^th Month DECEMBER 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 1 MONDAY [335-30] Queen Alexandra born, 1844

Men at the main drain in the Round Bank & carting coal from Cavan Station. Soldered the lead round the bath

Bingfield 2 TUESDAY [336-29]

Brady drove me to Cavan with the new mare for business.

Men carting coal & pulling turnips Kerr at stones.

Shot 2 pigeons out of the front door

Bingfield 3 WEDNESDAY [337-28]

Drove with May to Ballinanagh for Petty Sessions but found them over; did some shopping & came home. Men carting coal. Kerr at stones.

Shot 1 pigeon

Bingfield 4 THURSDAY [338-27]

Men bringing in coal. Ferretted with Brady. Heavy showers

Shot 7 rabbits.

Bingfield 5 FRIDAY [339-26]

Men bringing in coal & getting timber for sawing. Dr. Smith got me to do some turning for his motor car. Mr. Askins called to see me about Eades etc.

Shot 1 pigeon out of the front door.

Bingfield 6 SATURDAY [340-25]

The last of the coal in. Trouble with the engine. Men taking timber to Cavan.

Shot 1 pigeon. – Front door.

Bingfield 7 SUNDAY – 2 in Advent [341-24] 10h A.M. (Greenwich)

Went to Lisnamandra & had a chat with Moore on the state of the country

Bingfield 8 MONDAY [342-23]

Men getting timber from the saw mills. Eades sick. Ferretted for rats in corn stacks – shot one, but ferrets badly bitten

Bingfield 9 TUESDAY [343-22]

Brady sold Basil’s cow in Cavan fair. Tried the Evinrude, but failed to get it to go. Took it partly to pieces, & wrote to Mullery.

Shot 3 pigeons.

12^th Month DECEMBER 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 10 WEDNESDAY [344-21] Black Game and Grouse Shooting ends

Wet. Men cleaning the back lane etc. Worked at the Evinrude, & made some improvements, but could not get it to go.

Shot 1 pigeon & picked up one probably shot yesterday

Bingfield 11 THURSDAY [345-20]

Brady’s son George ill – Galligan ploughing. Worked at the Evinrude to no purpose.

Shot 3 pigeons – front door

Bingfield 12 FRIDAY [346-19]

Brady away on business – he stayed in Cavan with his sick boy. Galligan ploughing and Monery. Made a shutter for the larder window.

Shot 5 pigeons – front door.

Bingfield 13 SATURDAY [347-18]

Put a handle to a stone hammer. Brady with his sick son. Galligan ploughing. Mc. Donald & Lang hedging in Monery. Miss Swete called to say good bye. Ralph arrived by the last train.

Shot one pigeon.

Bingfield 14 SUNDAY – 3 in Advent (348-17) ƒ 6h 2m A.M (Greenwich) Ember Week

May to church. Sorted old papers.

15 MONDAY [349-16]

Brady with his sick son. Galligan ploughing in Monery, Laing & Mc. Donald hedging. Mullery came & took away the Evinrude.

Bingfield 16 TUESDAY [350-15]

Brady with his sick son. Work as yesterday. Drove into Cavan with Ralph on business.

Bingfield 17 WEDNESDAY [351-14] Oxford Michaelmas Term ends. Ember Day

Brady worth his sick son George of her there is little hope.

Galligan ploughing – the others at odd jobs. A fine bullock died.

Repaired the library grate. Mr. Askins called to say Eades was to go to the Adelaide Hospital on Friday.

George Brady died during the night. Ralph went to Dublin

Bingfield 18 THURSDAY [352-13]

Stormy. Galligan ploughing. Mc. Donald & Lang carting out the contents of the ash pit as top dressing & getting in straw. Did a little fancy turning. Ralph came home by the last train.

12^th Month DECEMBER 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 19 FRIDAY [353-12] Cambridge Michaelmas Term ends Ember Day

Brady resting. Galligan ploughing. Mc. D. & Lang stubbing thorns

Turned out and cleaned the drawing room. Soldered a lamp.

Each went to Dublin for treatment. Vera & Basil came home.

Bingfield 20 SATURDAY [354-11] Michaelmas Law Settings end. Ember Day

Funeral of George Brady. Ferretted with Basil. The Maxwells & Blackleys came for tea & ping pong.

Shot 3 Rabbits & Basil one.

Bingfield 21 SUNDAY –4 in Advent [355-10] St. Thomas, Ap.

The rest to church. Stay in & wrote to Charlie, Oswald, & Teddie.

Bingfield 22 MONDAY [356-9] ˜ 10h 55m A.M. (Greenwich)

Wet nearly all day. Men gravelling the back lane & cleaning the avenue.

Port a handle to a spade, mended the music stall etc. etc.

Sent to Cox & Co. for Ralph on 23.12.19 – A Post office savings bank

4 ½% War Stock Certificate, converted into 5% War Stock

Registered No. X 124465 – Original No. S108005

Bingfield 23 TUESDAY [357-8]

Ralph left by the early train. Put a slate onto the larder roof.

Brady & Basil drove into Cavan aft. Returning, the axle of the trap broke near the railway bridge. Trap & harness damaged. Mare caught at Blackleys. Basil & sunburnt.

Brady hurt – sent for Dr. Burke.

Bingfield 24 WEDNESDAY [358-7]

A little out of sorts. Mc. Donald & Galligan took the remains of my trap to Daniels went to see Brady, who is in bed. Vera & Basil to Cavan for badminton. Wrote to surveyor of taxes.

Shot one pigeon (front door)

Bingfield 25 THURSDAY [359-6] CHRISTMAS DAY. Quarter Day.

Morn. service. Wrote to King, Vida, & Fran.

Bingfield 26 FRIDAY [360-5] St. Stephen M. Boxing Day. Bank Holiday

Wet. Went through a lot of old papers, music, etc.

Bingfield 27 SATURDAY [361-4] St. John, Evan.

Men carting manure. The rest of the family went to a party at the Atkinsons in Dr. Smith’s trap.

Shot 2 pigeons (front door)

12^th Month DECEMBER 1919 31 Days

Bingfield 28 SUNDAY – 1 after Christmas [362-3] Innocents’ Day

Morn. service with Vera & Basil Wet aft.

Shot 1 pigeon (front door)